Overlord II - Walkthrough

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Overlord II Walkthrough
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Because people are stupid.
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Walkthrough
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If you are stuck, then whatever you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Since so many people are actually stuck for no good reason, and keep spam-
mailing about the Overlord walkthrough, here's a stripped down version of how
to kick ass and chew bubblegum in Overlord 2. This file was done at the
request of sng-ign and is only intended for IGN.com. The only thing you really
need for Overlord 2:
Overlord 2 Tower Objects and Evil Quests
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Quest: Enter the Village and cause Havoc
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This is the tutorial of the game. If you are unable to follow through it with
assistance from the game's manual, please look forward to entertaining
yourself with World of Warcraft Peggle and invest your money into something
more substantial, like Alternative Energy Futures or battered women shelters.
Once out of the town wall, simply use the catapult to smash apart the wall and
flee. The Yeti will smash apart the remaining walls so you can get to the next
phase of the game -- the rest of it.
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Quest: Prove you are the Overlord
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This is an extension of the tutorial, but since the adult Overlord can now be
killed (dispelled), some pointers:
- Gather 30 Life Force - Should be easy, with the right tools. Kill the seals
to get your 30 and to boost your horde to 15.
- Moving Forward - When there is a wall or some other contrived crap blocking
your way, drive the Yeti off (by attacking it) and it will destroy the
barriers to the Sanctuary Cave (where you need to go next). Ride the wolves
available and keep them alive by assisting them in melee against the Eskimos.
- Yeti and Florian - Defeat the Yeti at the pier by attacking the supports
holding up the whaling boat the Yeti is on. Ignore the elf fighters and
swarm/horde the pier supports. Your Overlord and troop can cack the elves
later.
- Sanctuary Cave - Once this area is open and Gnarl changes the objective to
this map junction. Head there and leave the Hunting Grounds (never to return).
- Spell Stone - Kill the Roman wieners and take the spell stone after meeting
the dryad. Continue to the next map (this is the only time an item will be
carried from one map to the next). Take the spell stone to the town's entrance
(Tower Gate 1). The quest ends once the Overlord is back in the Dark Tower.
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Quest: Rescue the Red Hive so you can burn off Borius' fat face
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- Head to the Sanctuary Cave - Since the Netherworld accepts you as the
Overlord, go back to the Netherworld shard in the Sanctuary Cave and possess a
minnion. Use it to go behind the dryad's barricade and kill her ass. Hold the
magic button (three seconds) to zap back to the Overlord's body.
- Down the rabbit hole to find Red minions - Head deeper into the Sanctuary,
beat off the dryads and stuff your horde back into the minion portals before
crossing the second river. Minions drown easily, Overlords do not. Shortly
past this, you will find some free red minions. Use these guys to kill the two
dryads simultaneously to move on.
- Up to the village - Take the red minions up to the elf village and rip the
face off everyone you don't like. The elves will try to confound you with a
few elevator tricks; simply handle the switches (or whatever) or possession
stones to bring the lifts back to the Overlord to continue.
- Down to Fay's Statue - Bring the elevator back to the Overlord using a
possessed minion, head to the statue and crack it. Flee the area with the red
hive to move to the next quest.
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Quest: Control Nordburg and brain Borius
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- Extinguish Fire Barriers - Use the red minions to extinguish the fire
barriers. Head to the east (the Forge Stone) so you can go around the ballista
and kill it. Formations should be slaughtered using a mix of Overlord weapons,
flammable attacks, and concentration of force. Once leaders are slain, work
the formations slowly and they will break.
- Ballista and Dig Site - Take out the ballista and then the soldiers nearby.
Access the dig site and grab some wolves from around the corner. If you know
where the enemy leader will appear, you can leave most of your horde at the
intersection so they kill the leader as the formation traps you at the deadend
with the wolves. Grab some wolves and operate the switches to free mine carts.
- Mine Cart mania - Detonate each mine cart to destroy the barricades and
push the final mine cart to the town gates. Detonate it and use the ballista
to kill everyone. Head into town and go to the temple marked on the map.
- Conquer Nordburg - This should be easy. Head up to the temple and get a cut-
scene of the fat man going down an elevator. Destroy the imperial temple and
push the statue off the cliff. Head back down and the blockade at the stone
bridge should be cleared. Go to the north end of town and use a minion on a
banner to lure the second ballista. Move the rest of the minions to slaughter
the ballista crew and take it over.
- Deal with Borius - Push the statue from earlier off the roof onto the
fatman and use the elevator on the nearby scaffolding. Kill or enslave Borius
and Kelda warps you back to the tower.
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Quest: Control Nordhaven and Set Sail on a Ship
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- Activate the audience - Unlock new missions by viewing an audience. In the
end, everyone is killed, so the choice you make is for alignment selection
only.
- Nordhaven - Head into Nordburg and exit the northwest to Nordhaven. Use red
minions to ignite the tar pits to melt the ice blocks and head to the port. At
the port, ignite the final tar pit to free the ship or hypnotize ten villagers
to do it for you. Once you get on the ship, you move to the elven reef.
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Quest: Unlock the Reef
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- The Keystones - There are four keystones spread across three islands. The
center island has the first two stones (they are all done in order). Bring
each keystone to their targets (these are marked on your map) and learn about
the elevators. After the first two stones are placed, you will need to gain a
new ship.
- Elven Ship - Intercept the fleeing elf ship by igniting its sails (both
sides), killing all the crew, and then docking and boarding it. Any items you
have on the whaler will not be brought over. Use the elf ship's ram to pierce
the boulders blocking the final key (the third key is on the elf ship). Use
red minions to blow up barrels to get back to your ship after placing the key.
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Quest: Greens in the Jungle
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- Rescue the Ship Crew - Open your quest book and track the quest. The magic
dots on the map pretty much do this quest for you.
- Get to the Greens - From the west half of the jungle, go east to the tower
gate. Cross the river (alone) and avoid the pandas. There will be some green
minions who will join you in the north east. Take them back to the tower gate
and use them to destroy the poisonous walls blocking your way south.
- Green Hive at the Facility - The imperial facility is chiefly for using a
possessed minion. Get inside, kill enemies and open switches to move the green
hive around the facility. The eradicators can be killed using the backstab
easily - in any case, the enemies stay damaged/dead when you put in new
minions (if everyone is killed). Kill the sentinels by destroying their towers
and carry the hive out of the facility.
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Quest: Nordburg Commune
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- Destroy or dominate the commune - Around this time, you will have another
audience about a commune of elves and crap in Nordburg. Dominate or destroy
the villagers (not the fighters) to complete the quest. The wolves you need to
lower the drawbridge to the commune are along the shore of the ice lake.
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Quest: Spider Temple
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- Troll and second keystone - Fight through the valley on the Outskirts map.
Locate the red keystone and bring it to the southern shrine. This opens a
shrine with the troll inside. Kill the troll, then take the two keystones to
the spider temple.
- Spider Temple - Enter the spider temple and fight the boss. Lure it by
picking up the scented flower and dumping it on the side of the platform where
the water spouts are (the water is released by stepping on the center switch).
Reset the center switch by having a minion step on the corner swtiches. When
the spider boss is lured, use the water spout to shoot it off the wall. Once
on the ground, attack it. Reset the water spout afterwards and repeat. Minions
on a banner are better than having them follow you. Just pull off one minion
to assist the Overlord in reseting switches.
- Getting out - Use green minions to ride some spiders and pull the camera
back. Use the joystick to manually move the horde on the wall and hit all the
floorplates in order. None of the floors in the temple have anything except
gold (which is pretty common). Exit the temple and head for the Everlight Town
map.
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Quest: Conquer Everlight
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- Everlight Resort - Enter by bypassing the formations, sacking the tents
behind (no reinforcements) and then killing the leaders to break formations.
Open the town gate by using a possessed minion to enter town and operate the
switch.
- Locate the Governess' fat ass in town - The Governess will be in the
eastern zone. Get there and thwart the reinforcements by using minions to
carry explosives over the bridge. Once enough formations and tents are killed,
head to the Governess, enslave or kill her, then destroy the temple.
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Quest: At the Empire's Doorstep
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- Arrival - Rescuing Juno will unlock the Empire Harbor. Go towards the
catapult fortress and take a right. While on the cliffside road, engage the
enemy formation in a way that the enemy catapult will blast the formation to
bits. You can get more minions at the slave camp warp gate.
- Disguise - Use a possession stone and disguise a large number of minions as
soldiers (the minion you control just walks into the tent instead of being
ordered to enter it). Go to the catapult fortress and use the catapult to
demolish the gate to the next area and the wall blocking the Overlord (between
the slave camp and the front of the fort).
- I like to burn houses, eat flesh, kill, kill, kill - Kill the rest of the
formations and move from the harbor to the heartland.
- Kill the sentinels - At the heartland map, go down the trail and make a
left. Use the possession stone to get some minions in disguise (again). Move
the horde to the gargantuan and trick it into smashing open the gate. Once
free, go and track down the sentinels on the clearing over the main road. Kill
the first sentinel (horde swarm) and trick the gargantuan into smashing into
the second column.
- Sedan and Sewers - Locate the sedan chair in the villa (northeast). Once
minions take up the chair, move the Overlord in to warp to the sewer.
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Quest: Blue Hive and Arena
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- Shanties and Gate - Go through the shantytown and stop the raft by stepping
on the gate switch. Cross over to the gate and take your horde into the sewer
to open the gate in the waste tunnel.
- Meeting the Blues - Enter the sewer tunnel alone and free the blue from the
jar (it's advisable to create the Infernal Armor before doing this quest).
Take the blue minion back to the sewer entrance and free the other minions
(you will now have 4 blues). Drop the next four minions when their jars are
between the eradicators. For the wheel (the last four blues) puzzle, place a
single blue minion on a banner where the jars can drop and use the other
minions to turn the wheel to move the crane. Do the crane game and get your
dozen blues.
- Getting out - Move your Overlord along with the blues to move by the
enemies (blues in sweep mode will phase through enemies). Get out and use the
raft at the sewer entrance. Use your Overlord to raise the gate and leave the
sewer (one way).
- Arena - Crack the jars and take the lifeforce and potions to get your life
back. Free up the minions and fight the enemies as best you can. Single
enemies out and use the jars on the sides when you need more minions (don't
farm the jars as lifeforce or you run out of minions for the arena). Trick the
yeti into blowing up the doors to the audience stands. Go there and have the
minions destroy the columns supporting the Emperor's viewing box. Escape by
dominating or destroying the Yeti. Flee with the blue hive.
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Quest: The Wastelands and Tower Heart
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- Assemble the Tower Heart - With the blue minions, you can now push back the
magic acid. Use greens and reds to bypass fire and gas as needed to get the
shards (they are marked on your map more or less). Meet Florian in the upper
left to unlock access to the magic lake in the middle. The final shard is at
the big blue snail. Get rid of it by putting blues on the puddle after the
snail dies.
- Escape the Empire - Escape by crossing back over and going up the hill
where the Gargantuans come from. Use the barricades to shield yourself from
the arrow shower. Go into the sanctuary (where you met Fay) and start
recharging the Tower Heart.
- Recharge the Tower Heart - The shrines are marked on the map. Go to each
one and spell-charge the shrines to move on. Use a statue (blues) to seal the
gnome hole after the first shrine and then attack/kill the big fire salamander
after the third shrine whenever it is immersed in water. Use red minions on
salamanders to go up the ramps and to shoot the bombers before they kill
everyone. Get back to the elevator (where you came down) to exit.
- Find Fay, Mutate Fay - Find Fay and drain her energy to recharge the Tower
Heart. Go through the time and make sure to get everything here (there is a
dark crystal in this area and you cannot come back to this town afterwards).
Move the statues to get by the archers and carry the Tower Heart to the end.
Minions on a banner are your best defence here since they auto-defend you if
enemies near you. Escape with Fay and the Tower Heart to get access to the
final chapter.
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Quest: Elven Rebellion
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- Suppress the rebels - There is a sidequest before the end of the game. Warp
back to Everlight after holding audience and use the bombs to blow up walls to
the path north of gate 3. Head into the elf quarter and use bombs to blow the
barricades to the end of the trail. Note any elves killed here are counted
against the town's 100 villager population.
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Quest: Empire Hills and Capital
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- First Hill - Choose wolves and break through the formations to the first
catapult. Place the Tower Heart on it and smash the enemy formations. Head
down and kill the remaining tent and gargantuan.
- Second Hill - Zip past the bombers on the clearing and attack them en masse
from the back. Clear out the horde before the bombs explode (or go back to the
first hill and get more) and clear the road to the second catapult. Smash the
incoming towers (three rock hits anywhere to destroy) and destroy the guard
towers as well. You can also smash the leader in the grassy canal if you fling
your rocks around.
- Third Hill - Trick the bombers into destroying the formation and the
barricade, then go past to the final fort. Get past the field to the fort's
back entrance and use a bomb plant to open the doorway. Once that happens, use
the catapult to destroy the city's magic shield. Kill everything that comes
out and head inside.
- Shrines - The four shrines are marked on the map. Head to each one (they
are all in order) and destroy them. To open the way forward, use bomb plants
to crack road blocks and houses and locked doors. The ending map leaves a
straight path down the main avenue from the city gate to the palace.
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Quest: Palace and Final Boss
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- The boss - Go through the palace and kill the enemies there. At the magic
containment chamber the boss battle starts. Use a mix of red and green minions
to strike the boils on the boss' head and hindquarters. This should be enough
to drive it away. Keep a few blue minions around your Overlord to drive away
the acid. At the second room, sweep all your minions to the ramparts where the
archers are. Kill the boss afterwards. The final room is easy - split the red
and green minions to attack the head and the hindquarters. When the boss has
enough, it will spit out the emperor and you simply drain him (spells) to kill
him.
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The only thing you really need for Overlord 2:
Overlord 2 Tower Objects and Evil Quests
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